In Alaska, the state with the nation’s biggest increase in drug overdose deaths from 2020 to 2021, certain demographic groups have been at higher risk, according to a newly released report: men more ...

The comprehensive Alaska Department of Health report examined how the state fared between 2020 and 2023, noting successes and ...

Between June 2020 and January 2021, the age-adjusted COVID-19 mortality rate among American Indian and Alaska Native people ...

Alaska had the biggest decline in average life expectancy of all U.S. states in 2021, a year when health outcomes were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent national ...

Approximately one in every 500 Alaskans died due to COVID-19, according to a new epidemiology report from the Alaska Health ...

WASHINGTON – The Army's mental health emergency in Alaska spiked in 2021 with 17 suspected suicide deaths – more suicides than in the previous two years combined. The crisis has deepened in recent ...

A study of two powerful earthquakes in adjacent areas off the Alaska Peninsula in 2020 and 2021 shows a connection between the two. It also suggests they may be a part of an 80-year rupture cascade ...

Alaska is now reporting more new cases each day, relative to its population, than any other state in the nation, according to a New York Times database. By Daniel E. Slotnik Eduardo Medina and Mike ...